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Iraq’s rationale for the invasion was primarily to cripple Iran and prevent Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini from exporting the 1979 Iranian Revolution movement to Shia-majority Iraq and threaten the Sunni-dominated Ba’athist leadership.
Zeid-Abadi, who wrote a weekly column for Rooz Online, a Farsi- and English-language reformist news …